How do falling cats always manage to land on all fours? It's amazing how long it took scientists to answer this question! The history of the study of this cat's ability is almost the same age as physics itself - the first research paper on the subject of a falling cat was published in 1700 by the Frenchman Antoine Paran, but even today scientists continue to find controversial points in it. In this fascinating and witty book, physicist and avid cat lover Gregory Gbuhr shows how attempts to understand the mechanics of falling cats helped solve a wide variety of problems in mathematics, physics, physiology, neuroscience and space biology, contributed to the development of photography and cinema, and even influenced robotics. Searching for the answer to the falling cat riddle plunges readers into the fascinating world of science, from which they learn the solution to the puzzle, but also discover that the phenomenon of the cat's quirk is still hotly debated by scientists. The author is convinced that the more we study the behavior of these animals, the more surprises they present to us.
